It started with mid-flight broken toilets. But after an unexpected detour to Alaska, two days of delays and three Boeing 777 airliners, passengers who boarded last Sunday’s United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Shanghai …

Meet Thomas Stuker. The sales consultant from Chicago just hit the magical 10 million mile mark after taking 5,962 flights with United, which, if you hadn’t already figured it out, is the equivalent of 400 trips around the globe. …